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Maurice F. Egan

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with the romantic conventions of 19th century literature. They depicted lives of contemporary urban Catholics in the United States, showing Irish Catholics learning how to practise their religion in the United States. His novels promoted genteel middle-class values. Egan was perhaps the first
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in 1881. He wrote essays, poems, reviews, and short fiction throughout the 1880s. Egan had become a respected Catholic writer by the 1890s. The 1890s was his most productive decade as a writer.
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author to exchange the Irish part of their background for a genteel Catholic middle class identity. This was a common trade-off among his generation of Irish Americans.
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Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, former minister to Denmark, died at his home in Brooklyn late today. Dr. Egan had been ill for several months.
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Egan returned to Philadelphia in 1877. His father urged him to pursue a career in law, but Egan instead began to contribute to
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in 1878. He used the network of Catholic publications to further his career, first becoming an editor at the Catholic journal
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Egan resigned his professorship and left academic life when President Roosevelt appointed him
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Foreign Service Register and biographical index, United States Department of State
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Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni
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Studies in Literature. Some words about Chaucer, and other essays
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and other countries. He continued in this post under Presidents
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The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction
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The Ghost in Hamlet, and other essays in comparative literature
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Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning
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who became a successful industrialist. His mother was from
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series. It was successful, and Egan wrote a sequel titled
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Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
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The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait
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He did graduate work in journalism at 786: 784: 782: 664: 527:Works by Maurice Francis Egan include: 1643:Catholic University of America faculty 809: 248:, and novelist. He was a professor of 796:Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) 681:. Cork University Press. p. 22. 642:with John James Bright Kennedy (1920) 396:. He facilitated the purchase of the 350:Egan was professor of English at the 7: 1210:United States Ambassadors to Denmark 916:Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910) 579:The Disappearance of John Longworthy 492:The Disappearance of John Longworthy 409:American Academy of Arts and Letters 341:. He became associate editor of the 254:United States Minister in Copenhagen 502:(1896). His most popular novel was 382:United States Ambassador to Denmark 252:at two universities, and served as 937:. January 16, 1924. Archived from 356:The Catholic University of America 25: 1085:Works by or about Maurice F. Egan 604:The Theatre and Christian Parents 573:Jack Chumleigh at boarding-school 1633:American people of Irish descent 1613:University of Notre Dame faculty 1279: 1213: 1203: 1101: 1062: 1039:. UNC Press Books. p. 292. 902:. March 18, 1929. Archived from 753:O'Reilly, Gerald (May 1, 2003). 444: 219: 630:with James Hiram Fassett (1916) 555:The Success of Patrick Desmond 496:The Success of Patrick Desmond 407:In 1908 he was elected to the 1: 1076:Works by Maurice Francis Egan 652:Recollections of a Happy Life 567:The Vocation of Edward Conway 500:The Vocation of Edward Conway 420:Recollections of a Happy Life 328:Illustrated Catholic American 312:for the same series in 1877. 1367:and Minister Plenipotentiary 725:University Press of Kentucky 585:The Wiles of Sexton Maginnis 504:The Wiles of Sexton Maginnis 402:United States Virgin Islands 1100:(public domain audiobooks) 830:Shannon, William V., 1989, 646:Confessions of a Book-Lover 1674: 506:(1909), which was about a 300:magazine. 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Maurice Francis Egan
A bearded man, seventy years old, sitting, dressed in three-piece suit with bow-tie and silver medal hanging from left lapel.
Medal of Merit (Denmark)
United States Minister to Denmark
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas J. O'Brien
Norman Hapgood
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn, New York
LaSalle College
Georgetown University
Medal of Merit
Order of the Dannebrog

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literary critic
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United States Minister in Copenhagen
immigrant
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Ireland
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Georgetown University
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